I go to a lot of live things. Gigs, theatre, the footy, a comedy night someone talked me into. And every time, the same small frustration: the tools for finding what's on, remembering what I've seen, and getting ready for the next one are scattered across a dozen apps that don't talk to each other — and most of them only care about one category.
ItsOnLive is my attempt to fix that. One companion app for everything live — music, festivals, theatre, comedy, talking tours, and sport — built around discovering what's on near you, keeping a personal history of what you've been to, and showing up to the next one knowing more than you did.
I'm building it solo, mostly at night and on weekends, and I've decided to write the process down as I go rather than wait for some tidy "launch" moment that may never feel finished. Partly that's accountability. Partly it's that the messy middle — the architecture calls, the dead ends, the bugs that take three hours and turn out to be one wrong word — is the part I always wish other builders had shared.
So that's what this journal is. Not a highlight reel. The actual build: what I'm working on, what I got wrong, and what I'd do differently. If you're building something of your own, hopefully some of it is useful. If you just like live events, stick around — that part's coming too.
More soon.